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Kathleen R. Allen, PhD, is the author of Entrepreneurship
and Small Business Management, 3rd Ed., Launching New
Ventures, 5th Ed., Bringing New Technology to Market,
and Growing and Managing an Entrepreneurial Business, as
well as several other trade books. As a Professor of
Entrepreneurship at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial
Studies, based in the Marshall School of Business at the University
of Southern California, Allen has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs
start their ventures. At USC, she’s also director of the
Marshall Center for Technology Commercialization, where she works
with scientists and engineers to help bring their inventions to
market. As an entrepreneur herself, Allen has co-founded four
companies and is presently the co-founder and president of N2TEC
Institute, which is dedicated to technology-based economic
development in rural areas of the United States
(www.n2tec.org).
Allen holds a PhD from USC, an MBA, and a master’s degree in
Romance Languages.

Peter Economy (La Jolla, CA) is Associate Editor for the
Apex Award–winning magazine Leader to Leader, a member
of the National Advisory Council of the Creativity Connection of
the Arts and Business Council of Americans for the Arts, a member
of the board of directors of SPORTS for Exceptional Athletes
(www.s4ea.org), and bestselling co-author of The SAIC Solution:
How We Built an $8 Billion Employee-Owned Technology Company.
He has also worked on more than 30 other books, including
Managing For Dummies, 2nd Ed., The Management Bible,
Enterprising Nonprofits: A Toolkit for Social Entrepreneurs,
and Writing Children’s Books For Dummies.